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January 29, 2007

There's no escaping the truth. As Winston Churchill once said, "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

And when it comes to our lives the simple truth is that we are where we are in life because of the choices we've made. Some of those choices may have been unconscious ones, things that we didn't really consider or analyze, but we made the decision, took the action, and here we are.

December 30, 2006

Someone once said that we were all created for success, but programmed for failure. And even if our lives don't end up being complete disasters, far too often we are willing to accept mediocrity, and that's bad enough. Too many people have set their sights on survival. They hope to get to the point where they are "comfortable", but they would gladly settle for just getting by and keeping up with the bills.

When we believe that we are supposed just "settle" for something - whatever that something might be - we end up missing what God has planned for us. We were all created to give glory to God and the last thing that He wants is for us to sell ourselves short and accept anything less than the best. Our lives should boldly proclaim what God can do for someone who believes in Him.

For those who remember the movie "The Matrix," there is a scene in which Neo, who has been "woken up" and brought into the real world, is being given some training. Because the people who had been in the Matrix were wired for direct computer access, they simply plugged Neo in and literally downloaded information, even something as complicated as Kung Fu, directly into his brain.

There are times when I think that it would be great to have a computer adapter in my head so that I could just download new beliefs and quickly, maybe even effortlessly, change my life. Can you imagine being able to change the course of your life, overcome all the bad memories and fears that have been holding you back, and do it all in a matter of seconds?